Disclosed is a
light guide plate wherein the utilization efficiency of light is high, light with less luminance variation can be output, and a distribution such that the central part of the screen is brighter than the
peripheral part can be achieved. The
light guide plate comprises a rectangular light output surface, a light input surface through which light traveling in a direction approximately parallel to the light output surface is allowed to enter, a back surface on opposite side to the light output surface, and scattering particles dispersed inside. The
light guide plate is so configured that the light guide plate has two or more
layers which are stacked in a direction approximately perpendicular to the light output surface and which have particle densities of the scattering particles different from one another, the
layers include a first layer which is on the light output surface side and the
particle density of which is Npo and a second layer which is nearer to the back surface than the first layer and the
particle density of which is Npr, the relation Npo<Npr is satisfied, the shape of the cross section taken in a direction perpendicular to the light input surface on the light output surface side is concave, the thicknesses of the first and second
layers in a direction approximately perpendicular to the light output surfaces are varied from each other, and thereby the combined
particle density of the light guide plate in a direction perpendicular to the light input surface is varied.